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Music mogul Russell Simmons has been accused of raping a producer who worked with him at Def Jam Recordings in the 1990’s. The woman — solely identified as Jane Doe in the court documents — claimed the alleged incident occurred when she visited his New York home so that he could sign off on a rough cut of an upcoming music video. Per the legal filing obtained by a news outlet, Jane Doe alleged Simmons pinned her to the bed using a “wrestling move” and ignored her pleas for him to “get off” and “stop” before allegedly sexually assaulting her. “She told him she was ‘serious’ and she ‘meant it.’ …

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